Children Quote by David Bergen

“To be a mother is to live in fear. Fear of death, of sickness, of loss, of accidents, of strangers, of the Black Man,…

— Joanne Harris

“Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are,…

— Ayelet Waldman

“motherhood is like this: a series of tiny moments that add up to an enormous love, with lots of other moments of frustration and…

— Allison Winn Scotch

“Few things feel as threatening to a mother as does something that jeopardizes others' love for and acceptance of her child.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

“- A mother, a real mother with a little child, thinks day and night about the welfare of the little one in her arms.…

— Johann Christoph Blumhardt

“To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life. Your questions were answered, your freedom…

— Ariel Levy

“I went into motherhood with some pretty romantic notions about what being a mom would be like. I certainly thought that raising kids would…

— Debra Sansing Woods

“Becoming a mother had been many things--often indescribably rewarding, occasionally stupefying, sometimes even terrifying in the intensity of the love she felt for someone…

— Jessica Strawser

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“Being a mother was the best of all human experiences, and also the most excruciating.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

“Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our…

— Andrew Solomon

“Not a second has passed since she had children without her feeling like a bad mother. For everything. For not understanding, for being impatient,…

— Fredrik Backman